SAOtng 1.7.1

SAOtng is an image display tool most commonly used in the field of astronomy. This web document provides access to the slides used for a portion of the Caltech ADPF Users Group meeting on Thursday, February 26, 1998. The topic of that meeting was IRAF and SAOtng: Pushing the Limits. This presentation was given as a broad overview of SAOtng in particular,with emphasis on a few special features of which the average user may not be aware.

Overview Hypertext Help very extensive and useful Control Panel useful for most basic operations Image Tiling a little-used control panel option The Menu Bar useful options on three of the eight main menus The File Browser the easiest way to load images Image Markers lots of types; lots of ways to use them The Accelerator Buttons examine the system ones; configure your own Image Output: SAOtng SAOtng can output image as a PostScript or GIF file Image Output: IRAF EXPORT IRAF's EXPORT task can output image at full resolution XPA: X Public Access mechanism the XPA mechanism allows SAOtng to be controlled externally example script and its output

At the Caltech ADPF, SAOtng and its configuration files can be found in the subdirectory /usr/local/iraf/saord-1.7.1-sol2.5 or /usr/local/iraf/saord-1.7.1-sol2.6, depending on the version of the Sun Solaris operating system being used.